Writer, editor, publisher behind @bossfightbooks.com, a series of nonfiction, documentary-style books about video games. Author of MAJORA'S MASK, BIBLE ADVENTURES, and FUN CAMP.https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mvqktasrx224It's such a joy to receive a new draft of art you commissioned If suddenly rich i'll go full Medici A "bank error in your favor" sitch Monopoly taught us this happens often17 Sep 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqktasrx224https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mvbbexe3fs24First week with the baby in daycare. Wow so much more is possible. Actually catching up on some projects feels wild11 Sep 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbbexe3fs24https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mu3lqiv3kc2qI wrote a couple of short entries for this cool book! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3lqiv3kc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mu3lj6jwvc2qA few years ago I used a cool online tool to make 3D mockups of all the books. Problem is, grayscale somehow breaks the tool. So every book worked but Shovel Knight, Minesweeper, & Silent Hill 2.27 Aug 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3lj6jwvc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mp544q2tas2x"I’ve got great reflexes. That’s because at least once a day when I was growing up, my dad yelled 'think fast!' and without any notice tossed me an object, big or small, and I’d struggle to catch it." https://drboring.substack.com/p/think-fast-calmly-refusing-to-age25 Jun 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp544q2tas2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mp35xrh2js2dCutting emdashes is letting the robots win25 Jun 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp35xrh2js2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mnpkwahnrk2uthe word saddened i am saddened i am officially saddened it has come to my attention that i am saddened07 Jun 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnpkwahnrk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mnhzadcxqc2eHere's a Simpsons reference I didn't get til this week, even though it's from a S7 episode, Homer the Smithers, that I watched many times. It's part of the fast moving montage that gave us "I asked for light starch on my nightcap" and "you call this a supercomputer?" #simpsons #postum04 Jun 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhzadcxqc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mmcyxumpxc23"To comfort me, my mom popped off her prosthetic leg and let me take it with me into class." From a little story, LEG MOM. New stories weekly. https://drboring.substack.com/p/leg-mom-calmly-refusing-to-age-420 May 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcyxumpxc23https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mm7tdat7ec2lIn nonfic it can be useful to drop in occasional reminders of the fallibility of memory: "I dunno," X added. "I might be getting it wrong. It was a long time ago." Inoculating writer & reader against the illusion that everything is perfectly verifiable, even as we all do our best.19 May 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7tdat7ec2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mm6ijhdfcs23Today I was filling out a form to get new daughter a birth certificate, and was so stumped by the question, "Why do you want this birth certificate?"19 May 2026 03:53 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6ijhdfcs23https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mllwtf7tdk2iThe baby arrived last week! @emmafyffe.bsky.social is recovering well & little Maisie Rose is doing great. The baby is getting some UV treatment for jaundice that should wrap up in a couple days, and from there we'll focus on fattening her up11 May 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllwtf7tdk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mksr4hsrv22pWhere my Dan Harumi heads? Been getting a lot of wisdom from this guy lately. I listen in podcast form but he's on everything. https://www.youtube.com/@danharumi1/videos01 May 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksr4hsrv22phttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mjztxde4ds2wHaving to now manually screen orders because of an influx of people buying our cheapest ebook to (most likely) test out stolen credit card numbers. If I don't screen, their bank holds us liable and charges me a scam penalty, which happened last week. WILD that this is how commerce works!21 Apr 2026 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjztxde4ds2whttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mjzekahcls2wToday, a free excerpt of our latest book. Thanks to @rcmacleod.bsky.social & @aftermath.site for publishing it! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzekahcls2whttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mjkgcu7ghc2cIt is with a heavy heart that I put AMC A-list on ice in anticipation of my child's birth. Likely to be reinstated just in time for the 2029 release of The Super Mario Multiverse Movie, film's most ruthless reference machine yet15 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkgcu7ghc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mjfocumpis2yRecently I was on a podcast -- all went fine til the very end when they asked, "Anything else that you want people to know?" My brain went all cosmic zoom-out: Who am I to demand anyone know anything? LONG PAUSE full of hmms and stalling that I was sure they'd cut. They left it all in.13 Apr 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfocumpis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mieatkcan22x!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mieatkcan22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3micdwwentk2qGenuinely inspired by how much of our stockpile of baby stuff is from friends a year or two ahead of us. Feels like community over capitalism. It'll be fun to pass it on to the next parents as Tiny Daughter grows up30 Mar 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3micdwwentk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mi2tztoz3c2i🌝💥 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2tztoz3c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mhtipvalxc2zI'd be curious to have conversations with folks who've successfully weaned off crowdfunding. I think I'm finally getting to the point where we'd do even better without it, which is exciting but scary!24 Mar 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtipvalxc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mgzpwebhu22vLook at this poem REAL OR CAKE by Emily Chan in Diagram: thediagram.com/25_4/chan.html14 Mar 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzpwebhu22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mgnssx7cas2kGoing through your website & repairing old links is important, BORING work. Grateful every day for Internet Archive, though09 Mar 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnssx7cas2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mfhxezvuoc26My book BIBLE ADVENTURES is the primary source for a 6-minute chunk of the new Jacob Geller video. Well-cited, too!22 Feb 2026 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhxezvuoc26https://bsky.app/profile/gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com/post/3mf724ylmgc2tHere's my impression of someone on substack SO excited to savagely refute an opponent: Interestingly,19 Feb 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:zayws7prw4udymfsogbdwpwq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf724ylmgc2t